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Deal news! So excited for Ingrid’s fiction debut, a story collection, with editions appearing in both NZ and OZ

“Vast and intimate, Ingrid Horrocks’ All Her Lives explores the layered selfhood of women – all that they inherit, sacrifice, imagine and carry forward – and the power found in unravelling and reweaving those selves on their own terms” teherengawakapress.co.nz/all-her-lives/

LRO July reviews 🌟 Michelle Elvy reviews Town by Madeleine Slavick (The Cuba Press) and Ash by Louise Wallace (Te Herenga Waka University Press) landfallreview.com/memory-is-diff…

LRO July reviews 🌟 John Gibb reviews The Royal Free by Carl Shuker (Te Herenga Waka University Press) landfallreview.com/what-we-fear-i…

💙Laura Borrowdale reviews 'Surplus Women' (THWUP 2025) by Michelle Duff: takahe.org.nz/surplus-women/ 💙Tim Grgec reviews 'Clay Eaters' (AUP 2025), by Gregory Kan: takahe.org.nz/clay-eaters/

'Rae’s writing has opened multiple pathways (tributaries) for us into life, into illness and death.' Beautiful tributes here to poet Rae Varcoe, by Paula Green and Jo Emeney. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/07/01/poe…

Bill Hastings loved Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies and Without Fear or Favour by Kenneth Keith. Listen to his RNZ review here, and enjoy the surprise crossover between these very different books 😁 rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

'Wallace paints this world of a woman on the edge of crisis with precision, flair and well-placed wit... Her storytelling holds us all the way through. And her punch delivers.' Michelle Elvy reviews Louise Wallace's Ash for Landfall. landfallreview.com/memory-is-diff…

Coming to Oz in September, & US/UK in ‘26!

John Gibb examines Carl Shuker's The Royal Free in this review for Landfall and finds 'fresh, nimble, ambitious writing.' landfallreview.com/what-we-fear-i…

Today’s the day: come and see Ockham Best First Book of Fiction winner Michelle Rahurahu in conversation with Gina Butson, whose novel The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds is about to be launched, in the first Writers on Mondays event, Te Papa, 1215 tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events/w…

Yay for Nafanua! This is wonderful news 🎉 wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/07/n…

The incredible Una Cruickshank appeared on Culture101 over the weekend to discuss her award-winning essay collection The Chthonic Cycle 🐋 rnz.co.nz/life/books/wha…

'What do you do when confronted by the current and impending horrors of today’s world? If you’re a poet, you face up squarely in the best way you know. And in Erik Kennedy’s case, this means writing a collection titled Sick Power Trip.' regionalnews.kiwi/reviews/sick-p…

Insightful longform interview with Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2025 winner Damien Wilkins and international judge, Monocle Radio presenter Georgina Godwin Te Herenga Waka University Press #theockhams

The 2025 WORD programme has been launched! And we're thrilled to announce that the theme this year is JOY! Dive in, start planning your festival schedule, and join us to share #TheJoyOfWords 27-31 August. wordchristchurch.co.nz